The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie's First Two Hercule Poirot Novels

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Justin Longbourn

Agatha Christie's first two Poirot novels, narrated with a general-American accent.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Someone has poisoned wealthy Emily Inglethorp. But who? And how? Everyone suspects Emily's young husband, Alfred...and Alfred seems to be actually trying to get arrested and charged. But why? And why did Emily draw up a new will on the day of her death, only to burn it in the fireplace a few hours later? The murderer has been clever...but not clever enough to deceive Hercule Poirot!

The Murder on the Links: Poirot comes to France in response to a desperate plea for help to find his client already murdered - stabbed in the back and lying in an open grave. Brusque, arrogant Inspector Giraud thinks he knows who did it. But is the killer really the dead man's own son? And what does the victim's enigmatic, blackmailing neighbor, the mysterious Madame Daubreuil, have to do with it? Captain Hastings is baffled...but Poirot is on the case.

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Public Domain (P)2019 Pulp-Lit Productions

The reader

The French accent of the reader was awful! Did not like how it was read. The story, however, was good.

Mysterious Affair at Styles, et al

The story is great, as one expect's from Ms. Christie's mystieries. I enjoyed the book in printed form more than this reading.
Narrator is dull. Voice characterization amateurish, and detracts from story-telling.

Queen of Murder Mysteries

The gift of an author highly able to take us 0n the trains to murder. I slipped into London, Middle East, and beautiful spun stories. I recommend if you an older reader, slip into mysteries of a past era of elegance and proper English genteel characters.

unIntelligible portions

Good story; however, some of the accounts are in an
excessively exaggerated 'French' accent that is rendered unintelligable

Good story Poor narration

The story itself was compelling and kept me fully engaged from beginning to end. Unfortunately, the experience was diminished by the narration. The narrator’s performance was poor, and many of the pronunciations were inaccurate, which became distracting and took away from the otherwise good book.